Shirts



May 17, 1955 A. TENISON S SHIRTS Filed Oct. 16, 1952 INVE NTOR ALFR EDS TENISONS ATTORNEYS United States Patent SHIRTS Alfreds Tenisons, Bellefontajne, Ohio Application October 16, 1952, Serial No. 315,025

Claims. (Cl. 2-124) The present invention relates to haberdashery, and more particularly to shirts with cuffs.

A shirt usually becomes soiled first at the cuffs and more especially at the forward edge of the end, due to the tendency for the end to pick up foreign material lodged on a surface on which the arm is momentarily resting and, in addition, due to perspiration that is transmitted from the wrist to the contacting portions of the edge of the cuff.

Under these circumstances, it may be necessary to replace a shirt by a freshly laundered shirt in order to obtain clean cuffs, even though the cuffs are the only portion of the shirt which is soiled. This change of attire may be quite expensive to those engaged in social events and often the necessity for the change becomes embarrassing and most inconvenient to make the change.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a cuffed shirt in which the cuffs are detachably secured to the shirt and may be readily replaced by clean cuffs when necessary, and the soiled cuffs may be placed in the pocket or other receptacle.

Another object is to provide a cuffed shirt in which the cuffs are not only removable from the shirt, but also may be reversely folded so as to present an entire clean outer surface to the cuff as a whole, or in other words, to renew the cleanliness of the cuff.

A still further object is to provide a shirt with detachable French cutfs and in which the forward folding edge or folding line of the cuffs can be readily changed by the wearer.

Another object is to provide a shirt having a cuff of the folded-back, double thickness type which is detachably secured to the shirt and employing cuff links for keeping the loose edges of the cufi together, and in which the folding line of the cuff can be changed solely by moving the position of the cuff links successively through an array of openings in the cuff.

A still further object is to provide a folded-back, double thickness type of cuff, detachably secured to a shirt and in which the folding line can be changed as the forward edge of the cuff becomes soiled and the soiled edge is caused to move to a position inside of the cuff as a whole as the folding line is changed.

Another object is to provide a folded-back, double thickness type of cuff, detachably secured to a shirt and in which provision is made for presenting a clean over-all surface, including the forward folding edge, to the cuff without having to remove the cuff from the shirt.

The final object is to provide a cuffed shirt in which the cuffs are detachably secured to the shirt and the length of the cuffs can be changed at will by manipulating the position of the cuff links and without having to remove the cuffs from the shirt.

The above objects are attained, in brief, by providing French or folded-back cuffs, detachably secured to the shirt and formed of three cuffed members joined together at one edge and detachably secured to the shirt at the edge of one of the members opposite from the folding 2,798,232 Patented May 17, 1955 edge, with regulation cuff link openings in two of the members but a series of openings through the third cuff member which is detachably secured to the shirt, the series of openings being adapted to be brought into register with the cuff link openings in the other two members.

Other objects and features will be apparent as the following specification is perused in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows in plan a detachable cuff, improved in accordance with my invention and secured by snaps, to a shirt sleeve;

Figure 2 shows the cuff in a partially snapped position on a wrist band of the sleeve;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the cuffed sleeve with cufi links in place and showing the increase in length obtainable by an improved cuff link adjustment;

Figure 4 depicts a modfied attachment of the improved cuff by a zipper to the wrist band;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the improved cuff in flattened, developed form and with one of the cuff widths turned under the wrist band to present a fresh cuff surface; and

Figure 6 is a view of the cuff detached from the wrist band and with one of the widths of the cuff turned underneath.

Referring to Fig. 1, reference character 1 refers to the sleeve proper of a shirt to which is attached, as by sewing indicated at 2, a wrist band 3 so as to give a double thickness to the lower edge of the sleeve. As shown in this figure, the male portion of snaps 4 are attached as by sewing to the outer surface of the stitched wrist band 3. The purpose of these snaps will be explained presently.

The cuff portion of the sleeve is indicated at 5, this cuff portion preferably being of the so-called French cuff type in which there are at least two thicknesses folded over to constitute the end. The cuff 5 is actually constituted of three cuff members 6, and 8, each of full cuff width and each cuff member being preferably formed of two thicknesses of the sleeve material 1 in order to give sufficient body to each member.

These three members 6, 7 and 8 are sewed or other-.

wise attached together along one edge 9 over the full length of the cuff and the opposite edges it) of these members are left loose, as also the ends 11. Female snap elements 12 are sewed or otherwise secured to the underside of the cuff member 7 at a position as will cause them to register with the snap elements 4 on the sleeve. Thus, the member 7 is detachably secured at the snaps 12, 4 to the wrist band 3 of the sleeve.

Cuff link openings 13 may be provided in each of the members 6, 7, 8. The lower member 6 can be folded along the underside of the middle member 7 in which case it is inserted under the sleeve portion at the wrist band, as shown in Fig. 1 and 5, or if desired, the member 6 can be folded in the vertical direction at the edge 9 to lie against the upper surface of the member 8, as seen in Fig. 2.

When the member 6 is folded downwardly and is ready to be inserted under the wrist band portion of the sleeve, it will be found convenient to hold the cuff and sleeve in a flattened condition and this can be accomplished by the wearer by simply loosening or removing the cuif links until the member 6 has been inserted into position.

However, as the cuff becomes soiled and it is desirable to present a clean outer surface to the cuff, the cuff links are again removed and the member 6 is folded upwardly at the line 9 and is now superposed on the upper surface of the member 7. This position is shown in Figure 2. Thus two fresh surfaces are provided in my improved cuff, one surface being presented by the top layer of the cuff member 8, and a second surface is presented by the underneath layer of the cuff member 6 when the latter has been folded upwardly at the edge 9 and becomes superposed on the upper surface of the member 8.

It 'will be noted that these changes in. end surfaces are obtained by simply removing the cuff links and presenting the full width of the cuif, a condition obtained by the wearer when he removes his coat, and this change or substitution of cuff surfaces is produced without detaching the middle member 7 (Fig. 1) from the wrist band portion of the sleeve.

When the member 6 is superposed on the member 8, it has been, found advantageous to employ a cuff-adjusting feature by which the Width of the cufi can be increased or decreased at will. 7

Thus, the overall length of the sleeve, which includes the cuif, can be regulated While the shirt is being used by the wearer. For this purpose the member 7 is pro-' vided not only with the conventional cuff link openings 13 at each end, but also with three or more additional openings which are indicated at 13a in Figs; 2 and 3.

In order to lengthen the width of the cut? and thereby lengthen the sleeve, as indicated in the phantom line 14, the two superposed outer cuff members 6 and 8 are refolded at the line 9 to the position 14 to bring their respective cuff link openings 13 into register with the proper opening 13:; to affect the desired increase in length of sleeve. it is obvious that when the folding line of the members 6 and S is changed from 9 to 14, a clean and fresh surface is presented at the forward folded edge. Consequently, ifthere is any soil or perspiration line visible at the original position of thefolded edge, i. e, at the edge 9, the soiled portion of the bud is turned inwardly and away from the visible outer portion of the member 3, assuming that this member is superposed on the member 7, as'seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

This lengthening of the cufi It? is particularly practieal in the case of a growing young adult who requires. lengthened sleeves from time to time, and may also be.

useful in case the sleeve of a shirt hasshrunlr due to laundering. It should be noted that this change in the length of the cuff is obtained without in any way affect ing the detachable connection between the cuff and the wrist band portion of the sleeve.

These changes may be made without removing the shirt and obviously, if it is found more convenient, the

cuff as a whole can be detached from the shirt sleeve,

although as previously stated, this detachment need not be made when moving the member 6 from a position v to a position'above the member under the member 1 8, or even when providing an increase in the length of the cuff, and therefore in the length of the sleeve, by

bringing the various cuft link openings into register as explained hereinbefore.

It is evident that in view of the simple detachment means provided between the cuff and the wrist band of the sleeve, an extra pair of cuffs may be taken to a social function by the wearer of the shirt and, if necessary, the entire cuff on each sleeve can be replaced by the extra cufis.

While I have described my improved refoldable and i can be used in place of the cuff links and cuff link openings 13, with the button openings preferably in the cuff width that is detachably secured to the wrist band.

It will be understood that various modifications and arrangements in structure could be made without departing from the spirit of my invention, and accordingly, I desire to comprehend such modifications and substitutions of equivalents as may be considered to come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. in a shirt, a shirt sleeve terminating in a wrist band, a cuff detachably secured to said band, said 'cuti being formed of three members of cuif width secured together along one edge remote from the wrist band and fold-able along said edge against one another, one of said cud members being detachably secured at the edge remote from the foldable edge to the wrist band of the shirt, and a plurality of spaced cufi' link openings in the cuff member which is detachably secured to the wrist band and extending along the edges of the last mentioned member which are at right angles to said folding edge, and a single cuff link opening at each end of the remaining two cuff members, said single cuff. link openings being adapted to be brought into regist r with selected cuff link openings of the cuff member which is detachably secured to the wrist band.

2. in ashirt, a shirt s'eeve terminating in a wrist band, a cuff for said sleeve formed of three members of cuff width secured together along one lengthwise edge and foldable along said edge against one another, means de tachanly connecting one of said members remote from 'the folding edge to the wrist band, the remainingtmembers which are disconnected from the wrist band being adapted to foldat said folding edge in a single or double layer over the member which is connected to the wrist band, a plurality of slot means at each end of the last mentioned member, and a SiOl means at each end of the remaining members adapted for registration with any predetermined slot means in the member which is connected to the wrist band to vary the width of the band.

3. In a shirt as claimed in claim 1 with the detachablemeans comprising a plurality of snaps;

4. In a shirt as claimed in claim 1 with said detachable means comprising a zipper.

5. In a shirt, a shirt sleeve terminating in a wrist band, a cuff for said sleeve formed of three members of end width secured together along one lengthwise edge and foldable along said edge against one another, means for detachably connecting one only of said members remote from thefolding edge to the outside surface of said Wrist band, the remaining members which are disconnected from the wrist band being adapted to fold at said folding edge in a single or double layer over the member which is connected to the wrist band, and means in each of said cuff members adjacent to the ends thereof for varying the width of the end.

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